After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments that questioned the use of race in admissions at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University in October, NPR reported that affirmative action was on “life support.”

“If the court’s supermajority does what it sounded like it will do, it will end the ability of colleges and universities, public and private, to do what most say they still need to do — consider race as one of many factors in deciding which of the qualified applicants is to be admitted,” read the report.

Higher education magazines are also advancing that narrative.